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Valerie explained how the song was written about her and Dave's long-distance relationship after an arrest lead her to be banned from moving to the UK to be with him. Photo / Facebook

She said: "I was supposed to have already been [in Liverpool] and I was like, 'I'm just going to be a little longer. I just have to deal with a little bit of a law thing. I kind of got arrested and spent every cent.' And that's how he wrote the song. And it was like, 'Did you have to go to jail / did your house go up for sale?'"

After Valerie decided to stay in the US, Dave revealed that his song about her was getting released as a single.

Her favourite line in the song "I've missed your ginger hair and the way you like to dress" recalled that special period in her life.

Valerie says the line about her ginger hair is her favourite and says a lot about that period of her life. Photo / Facebook

She said: "I do like that part. And I used to dress really ridiculous back then too, per that line ('I've missed your ginger hair / and the way you like to dress'). It really was about that part of my life. I was dressing ridiculously fabulous, following around this boy in a band, and getting arrested really well."

When the song was re-released as a cover by Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson, Valerie admitted that it felt surreal that a song written about her had achieved such major success.

She told VICE: "I remember meeting Mark [Ronson] when he was doing a radio interview alongside Dave. Mark said [to me], 'I feel like I should open up my wallet and just hand you money.'

"It was really funny. It's also kind of surreal."

A few years after the song's release in 2011, Amy tragically died of alcohol poisoning.